The Isaac Hayes template has gotten a lot of play on the board lately. Just out of curiosity, and because this is basically just us shooting the shit, what is the most effective 2 day routine you have ever used? I have probably asked this before.

What I've been using, and return to frequently with Trap bar and Safety Squat because I'm a broke dick judofag. Courtesy of Shaf:

Workout 1:
Deadlift - OTM work capacity style. Will explain below.
OHP/Pull Up (ladder supersets) (OHP will be a 2/3/5 ladder, Pull ups will be 1/2/3 or whatever you can manage right now)
-whatever other stuff you want. I would suggest some kind of core work.

Workout 2:
Squat variation: OTM work capacity style: as per below
Bench/Pendlay Row ladder superset
-whatever other stuff you want, once again, core work. Fill in the holes, maybe biceps, calves, push ups...whatever, just don't tack on another hour after your main work.

OTM Work capacity style: What you're going to do is either watch the clock or set your phone to beep every minute, then you are going to do a single rep on that beep for 20 minutes. You will start at 275x1, x20 sets, for deadlifts, for example. You will add a bit of weight to this every time you do it, but the reps have to stay crisp, like they would in ladders. Deadlift specific: After about 4 weeks, you might be around 315-335 with this, depending on how you train up, and chances are you are going to all of a sudden see the weights almost jumping off the floor. When you reach the right load, your HR is going to stay around the aerobic training zone for 20 minutes. (which will be true for the squat as well)

tonkadtx wrote:The Isaac Hayes template has gotten a lot of play on the board lately. Just out of curiosity, and because this is basically just us shooting the shit, what is the most effective 2 day routine you have ever used? I have probably asked this before.

It's not pretty, it's not fancy and it's far from perfect, but it always gets the job done:

And if you really are up for the challenge, I'd suggest Ken Leistner's standards: "If you could get to the point where you're squatting 400lbs for 20 reps, stiff-legged deadlifting 400 lbs for 15 reps, curling 200 for 10 reps, pressing 200 for 10 resp, doing 10 dips with 300 lbs around your waist, and chinning with 100 pounds, don't you think you would be big - I mean awfully big? And strong?".

And if you really are up for the challenge, I'd suggest Ken Leistner's standards: "If you could get to the point where you're squatting 400lbs for 20 reps, stiff-legged deadlifting 400 lbs for 15 reps, curling 200 for 10 reps, pressing 200 for 10 resp, doing 10 dips with 300 lbs around your waist, and chinning with 100 pounds, don't you think you would be big - I mean awfully big? And strong?".

Lol. Up for a challenge?

How many people on this board either can hit one of those standards, or know of anyone that can hit all of them.

I could possibly do the SLDL and I could push Press 200 for 10 reps. I'm sure BD has hit the squats. But those are elite strength standards that you're not going to hit by training twice a week.

That's so much fucking bullshit...along the lines of Brooks Kubik saying virtually the same fucking thing. Leistner was a stud, sure, the squat and deadlift portion is the easiest, I don't think I know anyone who can do the arm shit, and the last guy I saw try to dip 300# was doing some ridiculous 2" range of motion thing.

And this brings up the humorous incident of Ken Leistner filming himself doing 423x22 in the squat and then people calling him out on it, saying it didn't look like it was that heavy and that the plates didn't ring like iron plates did, more like the balsam wood show plates Leistner had at Iron Island Gym for photoshoots, and then he cancelled selling the video saying the music in the background was copyrighted and he couldn't get them to sign off on it.

As those who were around when that happened, Leistner has probably never lied about a thing in his life, so the accusations basically made him leave the internet forever.

I used to bedevil Kubiks and ask him how his fictional training partners were when we were on speaking terms. For those who don't know, almost every training story in the original Dinosaur Training book was made up, except his powerlifting meet ones, and then I'm sure there were some artistic flourishes added. There were no training partners. When it was written, Kubiks was doing a Hardgainer type program PLUS was using Hammer Strength machines in HIT type circuits...when Bill Starr laughed at Kubiks saying Hammer Strength machines were Dinosaur Machines, he promptly took them out of the next version of the book.

And if you really are up for the challenge, I'd suggest Ken Leistner's standards: "If you could get to the point where you're squatting 400lbs for 20 reps, stiff-legged deadlifting 400 lbs for 15 reps, curling 200 for 10 reps, pressing 200 for 10 resp, doing 10 dips with 300 lbs around your waist, and chinning with 100 pounds, don't you think you would be big - I mean awfully big? And strong?".

Lol. Up for a challenge?

How many people on this board either can hit one of those standards, or know of anyone that can hit all of them.

I could possibly do the SLDL and I could push Press 200 for 10 reps. I'm sure BD has hit the squats. But those are elite strength standards that you're not going to hit by training twice a week.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:I used to bedevil Kubiks and ask him how his fictional training partners were when we were on speaking terms. For those who don't know, almost every training story in the original Dinosaur Training book was made up, except his powerlifting meet ones, and then I'm sure there were some artistic flourishes added. There were no training partners. When it was written, Kubiks was doing a Hardgainer type program PLUS was using Hammer Strength machines in HIT type circuits...when Bill Starr laughed at Kubiks saying Hammer Strength machines were Dinosaur Machines, he promptly took them out of the next version of the book.

Dude, you really drop a spoiler alert before dropping bombs like this.

He had his lifting buddies over. They were lifting a keg or something. One of them passed out from the effort and his dog went over and sniffed them to see if they were dead.

I actually like Kubik's material. Dinosaur training was one of the first "real" training books that I ever got my hands on after college and the ridiculous shit that was being pushed. It was that and a subscription to powerlifting usa.

His training tapes with the dogshit on the floor were bordering on parody though. "Cellar Dweller" indeed.

If you are not training for a real sport or a competitive lifting sport (and I include BBing in this), the things you will and can do regularly are the key. In sport often you really need to do what you don't want to do or suck at, but in the long view of looking good Nekkid and not dying of preventable afflictions you need to find something useful that you will do.

Not for everybody but I do 2 days of lifting a week in my garage gym alone.
An extensive KB warmup which is rehab for my bionic hip and a Prehab warmup for my workout. Goblet squat, two hand swing, single swing, snatch to an eccentric press move, pull to the face, and weighted step up.
BP-push
Either JM presses or phone book press-lockout my greatest weakness
Pull-up- vertical pull
Kroc row-horizontal pull
TBDL- hinge/squat. Hope to get back to at least box squatting and will be alternating regular dls with TBDL.

Two days a week I do conditioning, mainly sled dragging in a park in my neighborhood. But I can and do plug in brisk hiking, riding my mountain bike, or yardio. Because I hate this stuff but having the option of what I do makes it a choice and more likely to do it. And I can do it all in my neighborhood. And it is easy to replicate on the road.
And
Otherwise I do Yoga and mobility though the day. And have a half bosu ball in my TV room for crunches.

powerlifter54 wrote:If you are not training for a real sport or a competitive lifting sport (and I include BBing in this), the things you will and can do regularly are the key. In sport often you really need to do what you don't want to do or suck at, but in the long view of looking good Nekkid and not dying of preventable afflictions you need to find something useful that you will do.